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Colombian Pipeline Halted by Bombings

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Dan Molinski

Feb. 22, 2012 1:58 p.m. ET

BOGOTA, Colombia—Pumping has been halted at Colombia's second-longest pipeline, the Cano Limon, after several bombings by leftist guerrillas in recent days, according to an official at national oil company Ecopetrol.

The Ecopetrol official said Wednesday it wasn't clear when pumping may resume at the Cano Limon pipeline, which can send 220,000 barrels a day to the coast for export but over the past year has been pumping closer to 80,000 barrels a day. The oil in the pipeline comes from a field in northeastern Colombia, also...